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cessna310

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I'm transitioning from Autocad to VW. Two things I really wish were available in VW are:

1) Print Preview so I could see what was going to be printed without having to first create a PDF and then open that.

2) Print window so I can select a subset of the drawing to print without having to create a sheet layer and viewport which I then have to change everytime I want to look at a different portion of the drawing.

 

Thanks.

-Ed Hunter

 

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1 hour ago, cessna310 said:

I'm transitioning from Autocad to VW. Two things I really wish were available in VW are:

1) Print Preview so I could see what was going to be printed without having to first create a PDF and then open that.

2) Print window so I can select a subset of the drawing to print without having to create a sheet layer and viewport which I then have to change everytime I want to look at a different portion of the drawing.

 

Thanks.

-Ed Hunter

 

Hi Ed,

In case you're not aware, you can print from the design layers directly. You can easily move the page around using the Move Page tool. Anything you print this way would be in the scale of your design layers so their scale would need to be set accordingly.

Kevin

 

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Kevin,

  I had read about that but it's not solving the problem unless you can dynamically resize the page using that tool. Then you could get a window of just the second of the drawing you wanted to print. There is an option on the print popup that says "print current view", however, it actually prints more than what you're currently looking at on the screen. I suspect it uses the screen view as the starting point and then expands from there to fill the printed page. So you wind up with stuff you don't need/want on the printed doc.

-edh

 

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